Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Formative Research
Date Submitted: Jan 21, 2024
Open Peer Review Period: Jan 30, 2024 - Mar 26, 2024
Date Accepted: Jul 1, 2024
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Quality of information on the Internet for Chinese Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease：A cross-section study
ABSTRACT
Background:
Background:
Online information about COPD may have an impact on patients' treatment decisions, but there is a lack of evaluation of online information in the Chinese language environment.
Objective:
Objective:
The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of online health information about treatment decisions for patients with COPD on Chinese Internet websites.
Methods:
Method: Three raters used the DISCERN instrument to independently score the websites of the participants in this study.
Results:
Results:
In total, 96 websites were included and analyzed; 46 were included in the Baidu search engine, 28 were included in the Sogou search engine, and 22 were included in the 360 search engine. The mean DISCERN score for all websites among the three raters was 32.63 ±13.02, and the mean score for each question was 2.04 ±0.81. The score was relatively low. The quality of health information about COPD treatment on Chinese Internet sites is generally low, and the quality of network information obtained through different search engines and different search terms is different (P < 0.001).
Conclusions:
Conclusions:
In the Chinese context, the development of internet health information about COPD needs to be improved, and standardized disease name education should be regarded as an important component of popular science education.
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